T4x0 series have never disappointed me

Wonder if inline carbon capture is gonna become a thing in residential hvac

Way out of my scope of knowledge but I think a hypothetical unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity would be the next big model. Hasn’t happened yet but it’s probably possible

There are also big variables that general relativity predicts but that we don’t know much about, like dark matter, which suggest potential for an alternative or updated model.

For most of our use cases, though, it has a lot of utility and seems to be super accurate

Even physical sex being a binary is a construct, basically taking a series of dynamic characteristics that occur as bimodal distributions and reducing them down to two categories. These categories have explanatory utility, but shouldn’t be essentialized.

All of which makes the idea of a strict gender binary seem that much more ridiculous.

This is nonsense

I regularly set up Firefox because I distro hop and like to buy cheap thinkpads. It takes like 30 seconds to do some quick toggles in the settings. Half of them are regular shit like tab behavior because I don’t like the defaults, and that’s okay. 15 seconds to install ublock. Couple minutes in about:config

Would it be kinda nice if all the defaults just happened to align with my specific wants and needs? Sure, I guess. But I’m an adult with agency and am happy to click some toggles.

If maintaining and updating a codebase didn’t take so much labor then it’d be cool to use obscure single-maintainer forks. But up-to-date security and non-google alternatives are orders of magnitude more important to me than having to click a few toggles once.

Amber

On my end no downvotes are showing at all. Probably something to do with federation or piefed’s spaghetti code

It’s been a few years since I was invested in this topic, but I think the “meta” for reconciling the tension between blocking tracking and unique fingerprinting was to, in some cases, spoof information rather than outright block it.

Tor browser does that by default, though a few years ago when I tried to use it as a daily driver it was too tedious thanks to cloudflare.

Most of my research regarding browsers was focused on computers. Now that Firefox mobile can run extensions some of this might be mitigated that way.

Blocking JavaScript unfortunately makes you super unique but the tradeoff is probably worth it imo. I don’t want every random site I visit to immediately run a bunch of code, especially third party nonsense. Even if it makes my traffic stand out.

For most threat models I suspect unrestricted JavaScript is more dangerous than the potential for fingerprint-based tracking. Or at least JavaScript is very likely to leak multiple unique data points, whereas a “blocks JavaScript flag” is just a single unique identifier.

Sandboxing and siloing can also mitigate some of the risk, and is relatively painless once implemented.

All of it comes down to threat model and motivation. You can probably get like 70% better privacy/security for 20% of the work, which is a good standard for a typical usecase/person. Install ublock, disable some of the higher risk and less useful tracking (websites don’t need my fucking battery and gyroscope).

Diminishing returns start to hit hard, in part due to the passive fingerprinting / active tracking tension, due to cloudflare, due to everyone around you that doesn’t give a shit. Anything on the other end of the risk spectrum should just be done without a smartphone in the vicinity, if possible.

songs because they wire-up your other-hemisphere ( right-hemisphere for the 85% of people who have language in the left ) with the language, & that reinforces the language’s patterning

That’s something I’ve never thought about. Interesting idea, I’m gonna try adding that to my study routine.

I used Calyx Institute for internet for a couple years while working online and living in a car. Solid company. Definitely gonna check out his out.